We calibrate an infinite-horizon model with endogenous growth and unemployment on actual data from the largest … taxes when financed either raising capital taxation or reducing unemployment subsidies. We find two main results: (i) with … lump-sum transfers, reducing labor taxes and unemployment subsidies is beneficial to both employment and growth, while …

Keynes (1936) said that shortage of money caused by hoarding or failure to invest led to unemployment, but Lucas (1972 …) said that money does not affect unemployment. The tables have now turned. Gani (2003) produced a model of indirect trade in … which money is necessary as a means of payment. Involuntary unemployment occurs under indirect exchange, just when the …

model in Daveri and Maffezzoli (2000), where unemployment is generated by monopolistic unions, and calibrate it to reproduce …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …